gay

• active
• agile
• agog
• airy
• alert
• amused
• amusing
• animate
• animated
• antic
• audacious
• awake
• beaming
• blase
• blessed
• blest
• blissful
• blithe
• blithesome
• boisterous
• bold
• boon
• bouncing
• bouncy
• brash
• brazen
• breezy
• bright
• brilliant
• brisk
• bubbly
• buoyant
• canty
• carefree
• careless
• casual
• cavalier
• cheerful
• cheering
• cheery
• chipper
• chirpy
• chirrupy
• chuckling
• comic
• comical
• confident
• convivial
• crank
• dapper
• dashing
• debonair
• delighted
• devil-may-care
• eager
• easygoing
• ebullient
• ecstatic
• effervescent
• elated
• energetic
• enraptured
• enthusiastic
• entranced
• eupeptic
• euphoric
• exhilarated
• extraverted
• extroverted
• exuberant
• exultant
• facetious
• farcical
• festive
• flamboyant
• flashy
• flippant
• fresh
• frisky
• frivolous
• frolic
• frolicsome
• fun-loving
• funny
• gamesome
• garish
• gaudy
• giddy
• giggling
• glad
• gladdening
• gladsome
• gleaming
• gleeful
• gratified
• grinning
• happy
• happy-go-lucky
• heartening
• heartwarming
• high
• high-spirited
• high-strung
• hilarious
• hopeful
• humorous
• impertinent
• impish
• impudent
• informal
• insolent
• insouciant
• intense
• jaunty
• jazzy
• jesting
• jocose
• jocular
• jocund
• joking
• jolly
• joshing
• jovial
• joyful
• joyous
• jubilant
• keen
• kinetic
• laid-back
• laughing
• light-headed
• lighthearted
• lightsome
• lilting
• lively
• low-pressure
• lyric
• merry
• mettlesome
• mirthful
• nervous
• nimble
• nonchalant
• on the go
• open-eyed
• optimistic
• outgoing
• overexuberant
• overjoyed
• peppy
• perky
• pert
• pixieish
• pizazzy
• pizzazzy
• playful
• pleased
• pleasure-seeking
• presuming
• pushy
• racy
• radiant
• rapturous
• raucous
• ravished
• relaxed
• rich
• riotous
• rollicking
• rosy
• rowdy
• sanguine
• satisfied
• saucy
• self-assertive
• showy
• sidesplitting
• silly
• skittish
• slaphappy
• smiling
• snappy
• spanking
• sparkling
• sparkly
• sparky
• spiffy
• spirited
• sportive
• sprightful
• sprightly
• springy
• spry
• sunny
• thrilled
• tickled
• unconcerned
• unfussy
• uninhibited
• up
• upbeat
• uproarious
• vital
• vivacious
• wide-awake
• wild
• winsome
• witty
• zippy

• abject
• aggrieved
• anguished
• anxious
• apathetic
• black
• bleak
• blue
• boring
• brokenhearted
• careful
• careworn
• cautious
• cheerless
• colorless
• comfortless
• concerned
• constrained
• crestfallen
• crying
• dark
• dead
• dejected
• depressed
• depressing
• desolate
• despondent
• disconsolate
• discontented
• discouraged
• discouraging
• disgruntled
• disheartened
• disheartening
• dismal
• dispirited
• dispiriting
• doleful
• dolorous
• dour
• down
• downcast
• downhearted
• drab
• dreary
• droopy
• dull
• earnest
• forlorn
• gloomy
• glum
• grave
• gray
• grey
• groaning
• hangdog
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heavyhearted
• heedful
• impassive
• inactive
• inanimate
• inconsolable
• indolent
• inert
• inhibited
• irksome
• joyless
• lachrymose
• lackadaisical
• lackluster
• languid
• languishing
• languorous
• lazy
• leaden
• lethargic
• lifeless
• limp
• listless
• long-suffering
• low
• low-spirited
• lugubrious
• lusterless
• melancholy
• mirthless
• miserable
• moaning
• modest
• moody
• morose
• mournful
• overburdened
• phlegmatic
• plain
• plaintive
• repressed
• restrained
• sad
• saddened
• saturnine
• serious
• serious-minded
• sleepy
• sluggish
• sobbing
• somber
• sombre
• sorrowful
• sorry
• spiritless
• stoic
• stoical
• stolid
• subdued
• sulky
• sullen
• surly
• tedious
• tired
• torpid
• unambitious
• uncolorful
• unhappy
• unsatisfied
• upset
• vapid
• wailing
• wary
• weary
• weeping
• woebegone
• woeful
• worried
• wretched

• noun
  1. (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
  2. Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
  3. An ornament, a knick-knack.
  4. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
• verb
  1. To make happy or cheerful.
  2. To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
• adjective
  1. (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively.
  2. Quick, fast.
  3. (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful.
  4. Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
  5. Homosexual:.
  6. A pejorative:.
  7. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
  8. (possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree.
• adverb
  1. (possibly obsolete) Considerably, very.

• The parade celebrated gay pride and equality for all.
• He came out as gay to his friends and family last year.
• The film features a storyline about a gay couple finding acceptance.
• They joined a support group for gay individuals in their community.
• The character in the novel was portrayed as openly gay and confident.

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